Apple iPhone 5s continues to be the top selling smartphone in Japan

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14 Mar 2014, 17:40posted on

A survey done in Japan by BCN reveals that the Apple iPhone 5s is the top smartphone in the country. BCN, which measures sales of electronic gadgets in Japan, found that the iPhone 5s had 44.5% of the Japanese smartphone market in February. Combined with the 5.9% share belonging to the Apple iPhone 5c, nearly half of the smartphones sold in the country last month, had the Apple logo on the back. That is up from the 44% share that Apple earned in December...

I think Japanese people are like rest of people, they like trends, whats cool, etc, as you can see beside Apple they support sony etc. No samsung what so ever. I am surprised that apple is doing so much better than sony :S

They had the local Sony phones since forever so that is why they aren't selling in boat loads because they already saturated their market over time. The iPhone just got announced on several major carriers so it has a fairly new run. Once it saturates a bit it should taper off as well for a while.

well i have a mac because i need the software for it and its a pain in the a$$ rooting and stuff to my android, and i figured that a jailbroken 5 or 5s is adequate, plus i miss the days when i would sit with my iphone 4 with my friends and tweak our iphones and show off lol so, i might as well switch till i get a PC

Bro why not just have both? I honestly couldn't part with the iOS ecosystem, but I also love android. In the end I had to go with both. I actually do pretty well with using both OS's day to day lol. Cases and car chargers were another story though.

yea im keeping my xperia sp and Z1 but im also going to get a 5 or 5s ill keep the droids for fun and day to day usage but ill use the iphones for my hacking needs and desires lmao, i love android but the limited options on mac are whats bothering me im lucky for sony bridge though, its a life saver

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What isn't mentioned here is that many of the major Android manufacturers are barely even represented on the three carriers and the models that are from Samsung, HTC, Motorola, or LG are either niche or old. Of course Apple is going to have a strong sales presence in a market of limited options but I think this report would hold more water if we knew how many people were purchasing these other brands from outside of Japan.

Japanese cell phones use to lead the market IN Japan before the iphone 3g was introduced. After the inception of the iphone 3g, the market changed and many Japanese started to transition to iphones, as a break to something "new," even though many of the Japanese cell phones were as advanced or more advanced than the iphone.

Living in Japan (Tokyo); in the subway, you will either see people using iphones or sony xperias, you still have good number of people using the ominous flip phones and tv phones.

I find this somewhat ironic because the Japanese cell phone market is actually VERY internalized, meaning, if you're a foreigner and do not have a Visa you can not use a cell phone. You can buy a Data SIM (Internet only) card, but you can't simply go into a store and buy a prepaid SIM card unless you have residency in Japan (Visa) or let a friend do it for you. Yet here we have an AMERICAN company ruling over the Japanese cell phone market, which I find very interesting because almost any popular technological device or vehicle in America are Japanese, EXCEPT their cell phones.

I always wondered what would have happened if Japan pitched their phones in markets outside of Japan. Another interesting note is that the Japanese hold the definition of a "cell phone culture" to the highest degree; that's why Facebook is actually NOT part of the top 5 websites visited in Japan. In Japan, people truly rely on their phones to connect, so it would be natural for them to rule the mobile market in their own country, ironically, it's an American cell phone brand that is leading that market.

All true and fair. But at the end of the day, behind every Apple box, it says, "Designed by Apple in California." (Jonathan Ive and co / Assembled in China) Not, "Designed by Masayoshi Son." Also, the article you posted focuses on Son's business strategy more so than actual Japanese mobile products being sold IN America.

My argument was based off Japanese products designed in Japan and then sold in America, not Japanese thinkers coming to America to relink American products to Japan.

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